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Overall - 6.5

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 is less likely to be played cause it is also on the NES. In this game, it is a whole lot complicated. They are not the same levels. It seems to be a little messed up, but I am not so sure about it. Anyways, Pac-Man is a fun classic game to play, but not on the Atari 2600. The game lacks a lot of things.

Graphics - 7

The graphics look Atari-like. Like I said, the graphics are a bit messed up. The way that is messed up is the enemies are a bit holographic. It is kind of hard to tell if they are still able to be eaten or not.

Sound - 8

The sound is a bit okay. It is just an average Atari sound.

Addictiveness - 5

Like I said, there is a Pac-Man game on the NES so I would not play this as much as the one on the NES. It is okay, but I could never beat the first level in this one.

Story - N/A

There is no story in this game. All you do is eat everything and continue to the next level.

Depth - 5

There is not a lot to offer in this game. It is somewhat close to the one on the NES. It is okay, but not that good.

Difficulty - 7

This game is hard. Like I said, I was never able to beat the first level. It was so hard for me. Then again, I was never a pro at Pac-Man games. The enemies go at you most of the time and the worst thing about this game is that when you get a power up, it is a little amount of time to be able to gobble up the enemies. It is so hard to get them if they are back to normal in like 3 seconds.

Wrap Things Up...

Pac-Man is a good game to play, just not on the Atari 2600. I would recommend trying this game out if you like playing Pac-Man games. It is not as fun as you will think it is when you have played all the other Pac-Man games.

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I agree it is good just not on Atari. I like the game but it is really not the best. People say that it is a lot worse than it is though. Really it is not that bad.

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Yeah, the Atari Version of Pac-Man was so bad, its been really attacked by most reviewers, games like this should really stay on the arcades at its time.

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Nice review. I enjoyed reading it. Thing is, I don't get how you gave it such high numbers. This is BY FAR the worst port of PacMan ...EVER

The blinking graphics, and the horrible controls, the horrid level layout..and the fact that the dots are now long retangles of different sizes? They didn't even try to do something good here... It sucks on so many levels it's not even funny. It's the worst game on the Atari 2600 hands down. This doesn't have any thing to do with the limitations of the Atari...because if you play Ms. pacman it's like 100 times better.

They took a great arcade game, and turned it into a black square shaped turd.

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Guh, this game. I don't really see why you gave it anything higher than a 2.

This game suuuuucks. I've played it and suffered from every problem this game has to offer. The constant graphic blinking annoyed the bleep out of me, the control sucks, I mean come on. It's like there was not much effort put into making this at least a somewhat decent port at all. And I've seen Ms. Pac Man on the same console, and it looks a heck of a lot better than this game.

I'm suprised they didn't pull an E.T. and just bury all of the remaining copies in the desert or some shmit like that.

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